Indigenous Health
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Currently, Indigenous health is integrated throughout the new, scenario-based curricula and has been taught this way since 2004. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health issues, approaches and specific interventions are comprehensively interwoven throughout the various scenarios around which all undergraduate medical education at UNSW is based. Core training in cultural competence is built-in. Students will have opportunities to visit and interact with Indigenous health and community groups and gain experience with Aboriginal service providers through clinical attachments. Further, specific experience and placements within the candidates
Independent Learning Project (ILP), a compulsory subject for all medical students.
For those wishing to gain further experience, research and postgraduate study opportunities (for example, through specific
Master of Public Health programmes and projects as well as
doctoral scholarship opportunities are available to all suitably qualified students.
Specific opportunities exist for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates. Enquiries for
undergraduate entry can be made to
Anton Clifford.
Post graduate enquiries can be made to
Dr Lisa Jackson Pulver .